“The simplicity that was once expected to be the foundation of life has proven to be a phantom; instead, systems of horrendous, irreducible complexity inhabit the cell.”— Michael Behe
“We’re in an age of tool-building. We’re trying to build the tools that will let us understand the most complex systems in the universe.”— Edward S. Boyden
“There's no such thing as a simple, straightforward message. You can't just dream up a message and then illustrate it.”— Eddie Campbell
“I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. It's what's interesting about it.”— Michael Graves
“If you don't understand that you are an ecosystem, you can't have a prayer of handling the complexity of the world.”— Dee Hock
“My own view is that the whole 'software crisis' is a symptom of a deeper problem: an unmastered complexity.”— David Lorge Parnas
“The 'Net is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”— Vernor Vinge
“What type of biological system could not be formed by 'numerous, successive, slight modifications'? Well, for starters, a system that is irreducibly complex.”— Michael Behe
“No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points.”— Edward Said